03-22-2020, 05:47 AM
"There's been a wide variety of incidents - vigilantism"
I hesitate to post this for not wanting thread to degrade into a second amendment debate, but it's Hawaii related because of the mandatory waiting period and background check required to purchase a self defense or hunting tool in this state. This is from an interview with Charlton Heston in 1997:
Public opinion on firearms, Heston says, seems to be shifting in the face of recent violent incidents. He recalled the Los Angeles riots in 1992, which helped many Hollywood folks change their views on gun ownership. As smoke from burning buildings smudged the skyline and the TV news showed vivid images of laughing looters smashing windows and carting off boom boxes and booze, Heston got a few phone calls from firmly anti-gun friends. One conversation went this way:
“Umm, Chuck, you have quite a few … ah, guns, don’t you?”
“Yes, I do.”
“Shotguns and … like that?”
“Indeed.”
“Could you lend me one for a day or so? I tried to buy one, but they have this waiting period … ”
“Yeah, I know; I remember you voted for that. Do you know how to use a shotgun?”
“No, I thought maybe you could teach me. This is getting a little scary.”
“I noticed. I could teach you, but not in an hour. You might shoot yourself instead of the bad guys. The Marines are coming up from Pendleton; that’ll end it. When it does, go buy yourself a good shotgun and take some lessons. It doesn’t get so scary then.”
Heston said his friend writer-director John Milius had more calls. His answer was more forthright: “Sorry. They’re all being used.”
Heston identified several famous Hollywood people who own guns, including Steven Spielberg who owns one of the finest gun collections in California, but never refers to it, and never shoots publicly. Spielberg, who produced the all-time blockbuster film The Lost Word – Jurassic Park, has been photographed shooting a shotgun at a Trap and Sporting Clays range in California, but asked the photographer not to release his picture to the media. “Can you imagine the most famous filmmaker in town worried about his reputation?” Heston says, chuckling.
I hesitate to post this for not wanting thread to degrade into a second amendment debate, but it's Hawaii related because of the mandatory waiting period and background check required to purchase a self defense or hunting tool in this state. This is from an interview with Charlton Heston in 1997:
Public opinion on firearms, Heston says, seems to be shifting in the face of recent violent incidents. He recalled the Los Angeles riots in 1992, which helped many Hollywood folks change their views on gun ownership. As smoke from burning buildings smudged the skyline and the TV news showed vivid images of laughing looters smashing windows and carting off boom boxes and booze, Heston got a few phone calls from firmly anti-gun friends. One conversation went this way:
“Umm, Chuck, you have quite a few … ah, guns, don’t you?”
“Yes, I do.”
“Shotguns and … like that?”
“Indeed.”
“Could you lend me one for a day or so? I tried to buy one, but they have this waiting period … ”
“Yeah, I know; I remember you voted for that. Do you know how to use a shotgun?”
“No, I thought maybe you could teach me. This is getting a little scary.”
“I noticed. I could teach you, but not in an hour. You might shoot yourself instead of the bad guys. The Marines are coming up from Pendleton; that’ll end it. When it does, go buy yourself a good shotgun and take some lessons. It doesn’t get so scary then.”
Heston said his friend writer-director John Milius had more calls. His answer was more forthright: “Sorry. They’re all being used.”
Heston identified several famous Hollywood people who own guns, including Steven Spielberg who owns one of the finest gun collections in California, but never refers to it, and never shoots publicly. Spielberg, who produced the all-time blockbuster film The Lost Word – Jurassic Park, has been photographed shooting a shotgun at a Trap and Sporting Clays range in California, but asked the photographer not to release his picture to the media. “Can you imagine the most famous filmmaker in town worried about his reputation?” Heston says, chuckling.